Week in pictures

Afghan boys play soccer by the palace of the late King Amanullah Khan, which was destroyed during the civil war of early 1990s, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Homes in residential neighborhood in Longmont, Colorado, are submerged as flooding continues to devastate the Front Range and thousands are forced to evacuate with an unconfirmed number of structures destroyed, Friday, September 13, 2013. (AP Photo/John Wark)

Students wearing yellow ribbons sing during a ceremony commemorating the 15th anniversary of the arrest of five Cuban agents in the U.S. at the start of their school day in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, September 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Hannah Doksansky, a University of North Carolina student, from Atlanta, takes photos of backlit U.S. flags on the lawn in front of the UNC Wilson Library in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Harry Lynch)

Government troops take their positions as about 200 Muslim rebels held scores of hostages as human shields Tuesday September 10, 2013 in a standoff with government forces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

A Palestinian child removes a migrant quail out from a net after catching it on the beach of Gaza city, Monday, September 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Miss World Pageant contestants, Miss Xafira Urselita of Curacao, second left, and Miss Marilyn Ramos of South Africa, second right, smile for a photo with Balinese girls during their visit to a Hindu temple in Besakih, Bali, Indonesia Wednesday, September 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

A security guard gives chase to a chicken that had invaded the pitch on the first day of the final cricket test match between Zimbabwe and Pakistan at Harare Sports Club in Harare, Tuesday, September 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Will Schmidt flies above Lake Mendota near the UW-Madison campus in Madison, Wisconsin on a water jet-powered flyboard Monday, September 9, 2013. Schmidt invested in the apparatus after taking an initial test flight a year ago. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart)

A young Maldivian child feeds pigeons at the Republican Square in Male, Maldives, Friday, September 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Sinan Hussain)